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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.

Krishna Das

I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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Fall In Love Love True
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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Believe Exploration Instant Mindset Ourselves Thinking
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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Dedication Devotion Finding Heart Mindset Way
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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Destroy Live Lose Person
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right

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